Additionally, the report showed that motor vehicle theft and burglary rate per 100 beds stayed more or less the same.
With recent mass shootings all over the country, public safety is becoming a major concern in all major institutions. The survey was commissioned under the Research and Grants Program of the IHSSF to provide security professionals with an understanding of crimes — and their frequencies — that impact hospitals.
The report focused on hospitals in the U.S. and Canada and collected data for ten different types of crimes: rape, murder, robbery, aggravated assault, assault, disorderly conduct, larceny-theft, burglary, motor vehicle theft and vandalism. Two hundred forty-two hospitals provided usable responses and accounted for more than 56,000 hospital beds, 209,818,780 square feet and an average daily census around 85,000 people.
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